Tradeskills

Tradeskills are WildStar's crafting professions. Each player can learn and level up two tradeskills at a time starting at level 10. There are five levels for each Tradeskill.

You can swap tradeskills at any time for a fee, and the nice thing is you won't lose any progress in the skill you leave behind. Instead, it's simply unusable until you reactivate it. The more you craft, the more possibilities you can discover in terms of recipes and specializations.

Mining: Excavates precious ore, crystals, and gems. Used best with Weaponsmiths, Armorers, and Architects.

Relic Hunter: Excavates omni-plasm and Eldan relics from relic nodes. Used best with Technologists and Weaponsmiths.

Survivalist: Skins leather and chops meat from creatures, and harvests wood from trees. Used best with Outfitters and Architects.

When using Gathering Tradeskills, certain fun events can trigger. These include loot piñatas (where your materials simply pop out of the nodes), scrambling node events, and a giant wurm event.

Scrambling nodes are actually creatures with a mining node on its back. When you attack these critters, it will get up out of the ground and start running away from you. You must keep it in range and continue to attack it if you want its resources.

Mining wurms are an extension of scrambling nodes. When you begin attacking a node, a giant wurm may pop out from the ground. If you manage to kill the wurm, you'll be able to take a portal to its insides that's filled with mining nodes. Here, you'll begin a timed event where you can zap as many nodes as possible before you're kicked out. Think of it as a special bonus stage.

Each Tradeskill has an associated Tech Tree. As you find crafting schematics around the world and buy them from Tradeskill vendors, they'll show up in your Tech Tree. The tree also shows where you can find specific materials.

The Tree contains info about the recipes you already have, and how to get more recipes. If you wanted to, you could craft the same recipes over and over until you level up, but using the Tech Tree, you can unlock more diverse recipes.

Hardcore Tradeskillers can make their way all the way down the tree and will become the most viable crafters.

When you complete certain tasks on the Tech Tree you'll earn talent points to spend in the Crafting Talent Tree. For each row on the Crafting Talent Tree you can make one selection. Some rows have only one choice, while others have up to four.

The Crafting Talent Tree rewards completionists who want to be good at trade skills. The talents specialize you in some way. For example, they may give you better stats on a helmet or shoulder item. Some will let you add more power to chest pieces or leg pieces. Others allow you to choose the type of stats you use on armor.

The tree can be reset and you spend crafting vouchers to reset it. You get crafting vouchers by completing daily quest work orders.